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Batting

A Comprehensive Modern Guide for Cricket Players and Coaches
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Batting: A Comprehensive Modern Guide for Cricket Players and Coaches by James Knott and Andy O'Connor is an essential manual designed for players and coaches of all levels, both male and female. It offers an up-to-date, detailed exploration of batting techniques supported by photographs, diagrams, and sixty practical drills. This guide integrates insights from elite players and coaches to help develop the intricate skills needed for success at the crease, making it invaluable for young and experienced cricketers alike.
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This guide is perfect for cricket players and coaches at any experience level seeking to improve batting skills. It is also ideal for parents involved in their children's cricket development, offering practical advice and drills for a broad audience interested in advancing modern batting techniques.

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This is an essential guide to the intricate skills required to become a successful batter for both players and coaches. With input from a wide range of elite players and coaches, past and present, this is an invaluable guide to developing batting skills for young and old alike.

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Batting: A Comprehensive Modern Guide for Cricket Players and Coaches is aimed at players and coaches (male & female) of all levels. James Knott and Andrew O'Connor have created a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to batting for coaches, players, and parents, featuring photographs and diagrams along with sixty accessible drills.

This is an essential guide to the intricate skills required to become a successful batter for both players and coaches. With input from a wide range of elite players and coaches, past and present, this is an invaluable guide to developing batting skills for young and old alike.

Series: Polaris Publishing Cricket Guides

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    Batting: A Comprehensive Modern Guide for Cricket Players and Coaches is aimed at players and coaches (male & female) of all levels. James Knott and Andrew O'Connor have created a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to batting for coaches, players, and parents, featuring photographs and diagrams along with sixty accessible drills. This is an essential guide to the intricate skills required...
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Praised for its thoroughness and clarity, the book is described as "easy to follow and bang up to date" by Richard Hobson (Wisden). Sam Arthurs, Oxfordshire Cricket's Foundation Pathway Manager, commends the book's insightful and detailed approach, emphasising its balanced focus on tactics, mental strategy, and accessible technical guidance. Luke Sharples of Northamptonshire County Cricket Club highlights its comprehensive yet engaging style, suitable for players, parents, and coaches aiming to nurture batting talent.

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ISBN: 9781913538330

Publisher: Polaris Publishing Limited

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 April 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Polaris Publishing Limited

Illustration: Colour throughout

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 35.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 195.0mm

Weight: 390g

Pages: 400

About the Author

James Knott played professional cricket for eight years between 1994 and 2001 and is an ECB Level 3 coach. He is the Head of Cricket and Assistant Director of Sport at Stowe School and since his appointment in 2004 Stowe has finished top of the schools cricket league twice, winning the Schools Arch Trophy twice and finishing runners up of the National T20 twice and several of his former pupils have gone on to play professional cricket in that time.

Andy O'Connor is an ECB Level 3 coach and a member of the Northamptonshire ECB Coach Education team. He is part of the junior coaching setup at Northants, having coached most age groups, both boys and girls. He is currently Coach of the new U18s boy's squad, having coached the u17s Boys team during their ECB National Championship three-day and one-day cup winning seasons of 2017 and 2019.

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    This book is aimed at players and coaches (male & female) of all levels. James Knott and Andrew O'Connor have created a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to wicket keeping for coaches, players, and parents, featuring photographs and diagrams along with sixty accessible drills. A high percentage of modern wicket keepers are batsmen who are converted to wicket keeping as a...
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